Why not just buy things straight from the item search counter?

[AlexiaKidd]

Maybe add a 5% delivery tax for buying items this way for the convenience and to remove a bit more gill from the economy, if you don't want to pay the tax then go to the retainer as normal.

With this you are right it is pretty much an AH and that is not a bad thing ^^

[Smokie23]

At this point I don't really care which way SE goes with MW/AH. But this is the exact same thing as AH. If they did this they should implement a whole AH system and not a cheapy half MW half AH. If you have AH style system, you don't need MW and the retainer bazaar ability becomes obsolete. Retainers will be only good for item storage. Im not saying this is bad or good but DO NOT make some cheap knock off with half MW and half AH style system. If they do implement AH...they should do it right.

[Jinko]

I agree with the OP in that they should use what the currently have and alter it so we can buy items from the search counter, SE could remake the MW as a players house zone where we could keep our retainer and adjust them when we need to.

[Rentahamster]

Being able to purchase items directly from the item search menu would increase usability, convenience, and encourage more people to participate in the economy.

It would also solve the problem of wards crashing.

[Naylia]

Instead, why not make the wards themselves more useful. Open-air outdoor wards that allow you to rent or buy a stand. Allow you improve your stand. Use it for taking orders on goods. Have quests that earn you storage at your stand. Have quests that get you crafting support at your stand. Let's expand the functionality and immersion in the game rather then reduce it to a couple pop-up dialogs.

[Rentahamster]

Let's expand the functionality and immersion in the game rather then reduce it to a couple pop-up dialogs.

This would be nice in theory but....

This game is bad and they don't have much time to fix it. They need to implement fixes that will improve functionality and stability in the least amount of time possible. Save time, put the wards into a menu interface, this solves the crashing and the difficulty of and time consuming nature of purchasing items.

Use the time saved to tackle bigger problems like the battle system and lack of content.

Once that's done, come back and rework market wards into something really cool.

[JackDaniels]

Today I needed one cotton fent, one velveteen fent, and one canvas fent, I had to go to the battle ward, chigureons ward, and clothiers ward to get the lowest prices for each fent ontop of having to run to and use the search counter twice ontop of the first time when entering the wards (I cant see what other items an individual who is selling something i'm looking for has for sale, which in turn could saved me one or two zonings). What would have taken me less two minutes took me ten minutes of using the item search counter, zoning to various wards and running to these NPCs. The worst is when you search for an item, go to the respective ward and realise the retainer you are looking for is in another ward and that you should have looked more carefully to see which ward it was really in, ontop of that to add insult to injury you have to use the search counter again to find the right ward. Another thing that is really annoying is that when you are searching for an item and you finally see it in the wards only to find out some d-bag only put it up solely because they ran out of inventory space, or are trying to show something off, and set it for 99,999,999 gil.

Over-glorified AH is over-glorified

[Enthy]

The worst is when you search for an item, go to the respective ward and realise the retainer you are looking for is in another ward and that you should have looked more carefully to see which ward it was really in, ontop of that to add insult to injury you have to use the search counter again to find the right ward.

Hate when this happens @_@

[Jinko]

The worst is when you search for an item, go to the respective ward and realise the retainer you are looking for is in another ward and that you should have looked more carefully to see which ward it was really in, ontop of that to add insult to injury you have to use the search counter again to find the right ward.

I do this all the time and agree its damn annoying.

[AlexiaKidd]

I would like it if they kept the wards but expanded them to include buying straight from item list but maybe add an extra 5% delivery tax to encourage you to actually go into the ward to pick the item up.

They also need more filter options and a better layout of the item search lists. Filters for thing like rank, class and so on then sort them in order high to low and so on.

Also show +1, +2 +3 items in the search list and so on.

I don't want a price history as RMT's can abuse it like they did in FFXI. I like being able to see what people are charging and if there is none in stock you sell the item for what you think it is worth and then if people think thats a good price they will buy it.

I also want them to add an Item Seek Search so I can have look and see what Items people are looking for and sell them if I have them. I also want my retainers to be able to Seek items that I currently don't have. It seems silly that you can only seek items that you already have as most of the time you wouldn't be able seeking them if you had them.